Silver Page 24

The story so far:
Felicity, the young ice-cream seller, is sitting with Uncle Paul at the Lakshmi Cafe, as he tells her the astonishing story of her father, his former comrade-in-arms. Felix, an unusually lucky - and unusually unlucky - jerboa, was last seen in the night market of Nuaydung, gobbling durians. Lots of them. He has been warned not to mix durians and alcohol. And now we are coming near the end of his frightful night with: